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Quotes about the course

Dr Henry Wayne
Head of Counterparty Risk Analytics for Citigroup                      
"A substantial step forward in the one area that balances academic insight with industry-applicable computational solutions. This will be fast-paced and constantly evolving. I'm looking forward to meeting the graduates..."
Dr Moorad Choudhry      
YieldCurve.com
"An impressively-structured qualification that should be on inestimable value to aspiring quants in the City or Wall Street."
Dr Colin Farquhar
Fitch Risk Management
"The course covers a wide range of topics in financial mathematics, statistics and software programming along with their practical applications. This provides a solid basis for further development within a broad range of quantitative finance sector assignments."
Steve Upton
Risk Analyst at MBNA
"Staying at Leicester meant working with a great maths department, getting to sample more of student life and participating in a course which will help me on the way to becoming a quant in the City."
Chris Smerdon
Risk Analyst at MBNA
"Due to the friendliness of the staff and the high level of teaching, I knew that the University of Leicester was the ideal place for me to do my MSc."
Dan Wang
Risk Analyst at Alliance & Leicester
"Combined with mathematical skills and programming knowledge, the course is very career-oriented. It has helped me to find my dream job and I believe that it will make my future career soar to a new height."
Voke Ejenavi
IT Support Analyst, Credit Agricole CIB
"The course provided me with a sound appreciation of financial market dynamics; it also provided me with the necessary computational skills required for the implementation of theory. With such competition for jobs in today's banking industry, the depth and quality of the course has been an asset to me and I would definitely recommend it to anybody interested in breaking into the Financial Industry."